"To use that endearing language, Our Father, who is in heaven"--_Bates"s Doctrines_, p. 103. "Resembling the pa.s.sions that produceth these actions."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 157. "Except _dwarf, grief, hoof, m.u.f.f_, &c. which takes _s_ to make the plural."--_Ash"s Gram._, p. 19. "As the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure."-- _Gen._ x.x.xiii, 14 "Where is the man who dare affirm that such an action is mad?"--_Werter_. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that is any where to be met with."--_Blair"s Rhet._, p. 360. "In some studies too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which is our object," &c.--_Ib._, p. 349. "Of those affecting situations, which makes man"s heart feel for man."--_Ib._, p.
464. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn, nor Jane Sh.o.r.e, that speak."--_Ib._, p. 468. "It should a.s.sume that briskness and ease, which is suited to the freedom of dialogue."--_Ib._, p. 469. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as is truly pious."--_Barclay"s Works_, iii, 147. "This letter is one of the best that has been written about Lord Byron."--_Hunt"s Byron_, p. 119. "Thus, besides what was sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."--_Goldsmith"s Greece_, i, 102. "To have made and declared such orders as was necessary."--_Hutchinson"s Hist._, i, 470. "The idea of such a collection of men as make an army."--_Locke"s Essay_, p. 217. "I"m not the first that have been wretched."--_Southern"s In. Ad._, Act 2. "And the faint sparks of it, which is in the angels, are concealed from our view."--_Calvin"s Inst.i.tutes_, B. i, Ch. 11. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allow room for much diversity of taste and sentiment."--_Blair"s Rhet., Pref._, p. 5. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as are not to be found in the real examples of society."--_Formey"s Belles-Lettres_, p.
16. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as has been attributed to him."--_Ib._, p. 218. "That shepherd, who first taughtst the chosen seed."--_O. B. Peirce"s Gram._, p. 238. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which is allowed in popular eloquence."-- _Blair"s Rhet._, p. 261. "Ambition is one of those pa.s.sions that is never to be satisfied."--_Home"s Art of Thinking_, p. 36. "Thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel."--_2 Samuel_, v, 2; and _1 Chron._, xi, 2. "Art thou the man of G.o.d that camest from Judah?"--_1 Kings_, xiii, 14.
"How beauty is excell"d by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair."--_Milton_, B. iv, l. 490.
"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus range the camp alone?"--_Pope, Il._, x, 90.
UNDER NOTE II.--NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.
"The literal sense of the words are, that the action had been done."--_Dr.
Murray"s Hist. of Lang._, i, 65. "The rapidity of his movements were beyond example."--_Wells"s Hist._, p. 161. "Murray"s Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, have nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."--EVAN"S REC.: _Murray"s Gram._, 8vo, ii, 305. "The mechanism of clocks and watches were totally unknown."--HUME: _Priestley"s Gram._, p.
193. "The _it_, together with the verb _to be_, express states of being."--_Cobbett"s Eng. Gram._, -- 190. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, neither breed confusion nor fatigue."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 266. "Such a clatter of sounds indicate rage and ferocity."--_Music of Nature_, p. 195. "One of the fields make threescore square yards, and the other only fifty-five."--_Duncan"s Logic_, p. 8. "The happy effects of this fable is worth attending to."--_Bailey"s Ovid_, p. x. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays still linger with us."--_Gould"s Advocate_. "Enough of its form and force are retained to render them uneasy."--_Maturin"s Sermons_, p. 261. "The works of nature, in this respect, is extremely regular."--_Dr. Pratt"s Werter_. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases have been made by commerce."--_Bicknell"s Gram._, Part ii, p. 10. "The dialect of some nouns are taken notice of in the notes."--_Milnes, Greek Gram._, p.
255. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, afford the means of debas.e.m.e.nt, or of perversion."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. xxvii. "By which means the Order of the Words are disturbed."--_Holmes"s Rhet._, B. i, p. 57. "The twofold influence of these and the others require the a.s.serter to be in the plural form."--_O. B. Peirce"s Gram._, p. 251.
"And each of these afford employment."--_Percival"s Tales_, Vol. ii, p.
175. "The p.r.o.nunciation of the vowels are best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."--_Coar"s Gram._, p. 7. "The judicial power of these courts extend to all cases in law and equity."--_Hall and Baker"s School Hist._, p. 286. "One of you have stolen my money."--_Rational Humorist_, p. 45. "Such redundancy of epithets, instead of pleasing, produce satiety and disgust."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 256. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tend to cramp the mind."--_Hiley"s Gram._, 3d Ed., p. 187. "Each of these are presented to us in different relations"--_Hendrick"s Gram._, 1st Ed., p. 34. "The past tense of these verbs, _should, would, might, could_, are very indefinite with respect to time."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 33; 5th Ed., p.
31. "The power of the words, which are said to govern this mood, are distinctly understood."--_Chandler"s Gram._, Ed. of 1821, p. 33.
"And now, at length, the fated term of years The world"s desire have brought, and lo! the G.o.d appears."
--_Dr. Lowth, on "the Genealogy of Christ."_
"Variety of Numbers still belong To the soft Melody of Ode or Song."
--_Brightland"s Gram._, p. 170.
UNDER NOTE III.--COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.
"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish are hardly granted to the same man."--_Johnson, Adv. to Dict._ "To lay down rules for these are as inefficacious."--_Dr. Pratt"s Werter_, p. 19. "To profess regard, and to act _differently_, discover a base mind."--_Murray"s Key_, ii, p. 206. See also _Bullions"s E. Gram._, 82 and 112; _Lennie"s_, 58. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely please the mind of man."--_Fisher"s Gram._, p. 152. "In this pa.s.sage, _according as_ are used in a manner which is very common."--_Webster"s Philosophical Gram._, p. 183. "A _cause de_ are called a preposition; _a cause que_, a conjunction."--DR. WEBSTER: _Knickerbocker_, 1836. "To these are given to speak in the name of the Lord."--_The Friend_, vii, 256.
"While _wheat_ has no plural, _oats_ have seldom any singular."--_Cobbett"s E. Gram._ -- 41. "He cannot a.s.sert that _ll_ are inserted in _fullness_ to denote the sound of _u_."--_Cobb"s Review of Webster_, p. 11. "_ch_ have the power of _k_."--_Gould"s Adam"s Gram._, p. 2. "_ti_, before a vowel, and unaccented, have the sound of _si_ or _ci_."--_Ibid._ "In words derived from the French, as _chagrin, chicanery_, and _chaise, ch_ are sounded like _sh_."--_Bucke"s Gram._, p. 10. "But in the word _schism, schismatic_, &c., the _ch_ are silent."--_Ibid._ "_Ph_ are always sounded like _f_, at the beginning of words."--_Bucke"s Gram._ "_Ph_ have the sound of _f_ as in _philosophy_."--_Webster"s El. Spelling-Book_, p. 11. "_Sh_ have one sound only as in _shall_."--_Ib._ "_Th_ have two sounds."--_Ib._ "_Sc_ have the sound of _sk_, before _a, o, u_, and _r_."--_Ib._ "Aw, have the sound of _a_ in hall."--_Bolles"s Spelling-Book_, p. vi. "Ew, sound like _u_."--_Ib._ "Ow, when both sounded, have the sound of _ou_."--_Ib._ "Ui, when both p.r.o.nounced in one syllable sound like _wi_ in _languid_."--_Ib._
"_Ui_ three several Sorts of Sound express, As _Guile, rebuild, Bruise_ and _Recruit_ confess."
--_Brightland"s Gram._, p. 34.
UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.
"When each of the letters which compose this word, have been learned."--_Dr. Weeks, on Orthog._, p. 22. "As neither of us deny that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."--_Blair"s Rhet._, p. 21. "Yet neither of them are remarkable for precision."--_Ib._, p. 95. "How far each of the three great epic poets have distinguished themselves."--_Ib._, p.
427. "Each of these produce a separate agreeable sensation."--_Ib._, p. 48.
"On the Lord"s day every one of us Christians keep the sabbath."--_Tr. of Irenaeus_. "And each of them bear the image of purity and holiness."--_Hope of Israel_, p. 81. "Were either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"--_Foster"s Report_, i, 96. "Whilst neither of these letters exist in the Eugubian inscription."--_Knight, on Greek Alph._, p. 122. "And neither of them are properly termed indefinite."--_Wilson"s Essay on Gram._, p. 88. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each their verb."--_Lowth"s Gram._, p. 120. "Sometimes when the word ends in _s_, neither of the signs are used."--_Alex. Murray"s Gram._, p. 21.
"And as neither of these manners offend the ear."--_Walker"s Dict., Pref._, p. 5. "Neither of these two Tenses are confined to this signification only."--_Johnson"s Gram. Com._, p. 339. "But neither of these circ.u.mstances are intended here."--_Tooke"s Diversions_, ii, 237. "So that all are indebted to each, and each are dependent upon all."--_Am. Bible Society"s Rep._, 1838, p. 89. "And yet neither of them express any more action in this case than they did in the other."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 201. "Each of these expressions denote action."--_Hallock"s Gram._, p. 74. "Neither of these moods seem to be defined by distinct boundaries."--_Butler"s Practical Gram._, p. 66. "Neither of these solutions are correct."-- _Bullions, Lat. Gram._, p. 236. "Neither bear any sign of case at all."--_Fowler"s E. Gram._, 8vo, 1850, --217.
"Each in their turn like Banquo"s monarchs stalk."--_Byron_.
"And tell what each of them by th"other lose."--_Shak., Cori._, iii, 2.
UNDER NOTE V.--VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.
"The quarrels of lovers is a renewal of love."--_Adam"s Lat. Gram._, p.
156; _Alexander"s_, 49; _Gould"s_, 159; _Bullions"s_, 206. "Two dots, one placed above the other, is called _Sheva_."--_Dr. Wilson"s Heb. Gram._, p.
43. "A few centuries, more or less, is a matter of small consequence."--_Ib._ p. 31. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing. Hieroglyphicks was the second step."--_Parker"s English Composition_, p. 27. "The comeliness of youth are modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity."--_Murray"s Key_, 8vo, p. 166. "Merit and good works is the end of man"s motion."--_Lord Bacon_. "Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mind."--_Shakspeare_. "The clothing of the natives were the skins of wild beasts."--_Indian Wars_, p.
92. "Prepossessions in favor of our nativ town, is not a matter of surprise."--_Webster"s Essays_, p. 217. "Two shillings and six pence is half a crown, but not a half crown."--_Priestley"s Gram._, p. 150; _Bicknell"s_, ii, 53. "Two vowels, p.r.o.nounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, is called a dipthong."--_Cooper"s Pl. and Pr. Gram._, p. 1. "Two or more sentences united together is called a Compound Sentence."--_P. E. Day"s District School Gram._, p. 10. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, is called a Phrase."--_Ibid._ "But the common Number of Times are five."--_The British Grammar_, p. 122. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, is another source of darkness in composition."--_Jamieson"s Rhet._, p. 107. "The United States is the great middle division of North America."--_Morse"s Geog._, p. 44. "A great cause of the low state of industry were the restraints put upon it."--HUME: _Murray"s Gram._, p. 145; _Ingersoll"s_, 172; _Sanborn"s_, 192; _Smith"s_, 123; and others. "Here two tall ships becomes the victor"s prey."--_Rowe"s Lucan_, B. ii, l. 1098.
"The expenses incident to an outfit is surely no object."--_The Friend_, Vol. iii., p. 200.
"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."--_Milton_.
UNDER NOTE VI.--CHANGE THE NOMINATIVE.
"Much pains has been taken to explain all the kinds of words."--_Infant School Gram._ p. 128. "Not less [_time_] than three years are spent in attaining this faculty."--_Music of Nature_, p. 28. "Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wish"d presence."--_Milton"s Comus_. l. 948. "Peace! my darling, here"s no danger, Here"s no oxen near thy bed."--_Watts._ "But every one of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."--_Coleridge"s Introduction_, p. 61. "The old theorists, calling the Interrogatives and Repliers, _adverbs_, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."--_O. B. Peirce"s Gram._, p.
374. "Where a series of sentences occur, place them in the order in which the facts occur."--_Ib._, p. 264. "And that the whole in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 275. "The origin of the Grecian, and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."--_Adam"s Rhet._, i, 95. "In these respects, mankind is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."--_Butler"s a.n.a.logy_, p. 144.
"The scripture are the oracles of G.o.d himself."--HOOKER: _Joh. Dict., w.
Oracle_. "And at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits."--_Solomon"s Song_, vii, 13. "The preterit of _pluck, look_, and _toss_ are, in speech, p.r.o.nounced _pluckt, lookt, tosst_."--_Fowler"s E. Gram._, 1850, --68.
"Severe the doom that length of days impose, To stand sad witness of unnumber"d woes!"--_Melmoth_.
UNDER NOTE VII.--ADAPT FORM TO STYLE.
1. _Forms not proper for the Common or Familiar Style_.
"Was it thou that buildedst that house?"--_Inst._, p. 151. "That boy writeth very elegantly."--_Ib._ "Couldest not thou write without blotting thy book?"--_Ib._ "Thinkest thou not it will rain to-day?"--_Ib._ "Doth not your cousin intend to visit you?"--_Ib._ "That boy hath torn my book."--_Ib._ "Was it thou that spreadest the hay?"--_Ib._ "Was it James, or thou, that didst let him in?"--_Ib._ "He dareth not say a word."--_Ib._ "Thou stoodest in my way and hinderedst me."--_Ib._
"Whom see I?--Whom seest thou now?--Whom sees he?--Whom lovest thou most?--What dost thou to-day?--What person seest thou teaching that boy?--He hath two new knives.--Which road takest thou?--What child teaches he?"--_Ingersoll"s Gram._, p. 66. "Thou, who makest my shoes, sellest many more."--_Ib._, p. 67.
"The English language hath been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It hath been considerably polished and refined."--_Lowth"s Gram., Pref._, p. iii. "This _stile_ is ostentatious, and doth not suit grave writing."--_Priestley"s Gram._, p. 82. "But custom hath now appropriated _who_ to persons, and _which_ to things."--_Ib._, p. 97. "The indicative mood sheweth or declareth; as, _Ego amo_, I love: or else asketh a question; as, _Amas tu_? Dost thou love?"--_Paul"s Accidence_, Ed. of 1793, p. 16. "Though thou canst not do much for the cause, thou mayst and shouldst do something."--_Murray"s Gram._, p. 143. "The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy task; but thou knowest he paid it cheerfully."--_Murray"s Key_, R. 1, p. 180. "It may, and often doth, come short of it."--_Campbell"s Rhetoric_, p. 160.
""Twas thou, who, while thou seem"dst to chide, To give me all thy pittance tried."--_Mitford"s Blanch_, p. 78.
2. _Forms not proper for the Solemn or Biblical Style_.
"The Lord has prepaid his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over all."--See _Key_. "Thou answer"d them, O Lord our G.o.d: thou was a G.o.d that forgave them, though thou took vengeance of their inventions."--See _Key_.
"Then thou spoke in vision to thy Holy One, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty."--See _Key_. "So then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that rules, but of G.o.d that shows mercy; who dispenses his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seems good in his sight."--See _Key_.
"Thou, the mean while, was blending with my thought; Yea, with my life, and life"s own secret joy."--_Coleridge_.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.
"Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?"--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p. 249. "Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman?"--_Ib._ "There is not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice."--_Murray"s Gram._, p. 300. "In order to adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period."--_Ib._, p. 324; _Blair"s Rhet._, 118. "But, sometimes, there is a verb comest in."--_Cobbett"s English Gram._, --248. "Mr. Prince has a genius would prompt him to better things."--_Spectator_, No. 466. "It is this removes that impenetrable mist."--_Harris"s Hermes_, p. 362. "By the praise is given him for his courage."--_Locke, on Education_, p. 214. "There is no man would be more welcome here."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 544. "Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and immediately follows."--_Blair"s Rhet._, p. 141. "And as connected with what goes before and follows."-- _Ib._, p. 354. "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong"s sake."--_Lord Bacon_. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence and folly, and might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."--_Butler"s a.n.a.logy_, p. 108. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as respect justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."--_Gospel its own Witness_, p. 56. "Indeed, if there be any such, have been, or appear to be of us, as suppose, there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matter."--_Barclay"s Works_, i, 504. "There were that drew back; there were that made shipwreck of faith: yea, there were that brought in d.a.m.nable heresies."--_Ib._, i, 466. "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper, and in similar situations is fit to be imitated."--_Blair"s Rhet._, p. 274. "This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and was formerly very prevalent."-- _Churchill"s Gram._, p. 150. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."--_Job_, viii, 17.
"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.
"Dear friend, Am sorry to hear of thy loss; but hope it may be retrieved. Should be happy to render thee any a.s.sistance in my power.
Shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept a.s.surances of my regard. A. B."
"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.
"Dear Sir, Have just received the kind note favoured me with this morning; and cannot forbear to express my grat.i.tude to you. On further information, find have not lost so much as at first supposed; and believe shall still be able to meet all my engagements. Should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks.